Chapter 16 Cloud Backup and RestoreThe Infrastructure of Digital Failure
Taylor, A.R.E.
Chapter 16 Cloud Backup and Restore The Infrastructure of Digital Failure
- Taylor & Francis 2023
- 1 electronic resource (15 p.)
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Digital devices are prone to failure. An increasing range of cloud backup solutions aim to ensure that no matter what should happen to a user’s device, their files and data can be quickly re-downloaded and re-installed on a new device with ease. If the failure or breakdown of a digital device may once have resulted in a potentially devastating data loss event, cloud backup and recovery tools work to reduce the disruptive impact of device failure. This has implications for theories of failure that are based on the premise that breakdown or failure are disruptive events. Drawing on Apple’s cloud-based data backup and restore service, this chapter conceptualises the cloud as an infrastructure designed to anticipate and absorb digital failure. In doing so, it explores how cloud services bolster cultures of routine device upgrading and e-waste production.
Creative Commons
English
9780429355950-20 9780367404048 9781032371047
10.4324/9780429355950-20 doi
digital failure, breakdown, cloud backup, restoration thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
Chapter 16 Cloud Backup and Restore
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